Edward Atkin

2020 sure was a different year to what’s considered normal. I actually ended up with a lot more free time than usual, and made a lot more video games than I would have normally had time for. Here I’ll look over all I’ve done this year, and some things I haven’t done.

I’ve been saying for months that I’m ‘almost’ finished with Other Minds; almost finished with the Beta Version at least. I’m starting to realise what people mean when they say that the last 10% of the game takes 90% of the work (or some variation on that).

In big news; the game has an ending! Sort of – there is now an ending you can access only by 100% completing the game. I have my doubts anybody will ever see it, but I’m happy with it, so that’s the important thing! I’ve also finished every level I have planned except for one final one which I’m currently procrastinating over making.

I haven’t written about this game in about three months, and that’s largely because I haven’t really been doing much with it. I’ve been busy working on other projects, which has helped me develop quite a lot of new skills I’m hoping to use to improve Other Minds.

I think a long break has done me some good as well. I felt like I was really going nowhere with the project and I wasn’t even sure whether I wanted to continue it. I’ve been trying to push forward with a beta release regardless. After that I had planned to put the project on hold, most likely permanently.

I have since decided that there’s a few things I’d like to change before releasing a beta. Changing these things will probably make me feel better about the project as a whole and help me push forward to develop it some more in the future. In this post I’ll detail some things I think are lacking and what I’m going to do about them below.